Auties, Aspies, and other CloudCuckooLanders!

Not quite sure exactly what you're saying.

Do you mean that TV should feature characters who are explicitly said to have Aspergers, and then portray it accurately and positively?

I think doing that would be hard for TV, since people expect stereotypes, which are often inaccurate.

In other news, there may be a good chance that I am Schizotypal.

Bonsai Forest: essentially. But also that people with Asperger's, ADHD, OCD, Bipolar, Autism etc. have the right to use Word of God to diagnose said characters seeing as they have personal experience. We shouldn't take the power of representation away from the people who need it.

I have Aspergers.

Hello there. Welcome to the club.

In other news, I just failed to get into both honors math and honors science at my new school. I've always been quite good at math and science and i hope this isn't too much of a setback.

My girlfriend was pondering an interesting question today: She regularly displays a very specific sort of "smile" that involves her pulling her upper lip all the way up and very much furling and tucking it underneath her front teeth, and also raising her eyebrows and opening her eyes very widely. And she thinks she also has observed this facial expression in other women on the spectrum, but never in neurotypical women, or men in general. Anyone having any experience with this?

I'd have to see a picture to understand. I'm bad at understanding descriptions of physical appearance. I just can't visualize.

Here you go◊.

Huh. I don't recall specifically seeing that type of smile, actually.

Edited by IsaacTheRed on Aug 1st 2023 at 10:46:44 AM

Diagnosed Aspie here. My special interest is the fanfic Crossover Chaos, and I came here to fix things on this wiki related to it. Hello!

.

edited 13th Jan '16 2:54:58 PM by awdur

Huh. Turns out that in addition to my ADHD and Asperger's, I'm also Paranoid. Just wonderful.

Officially, I've been diagnosed with ADHD (which I now think is ADD) and Asperger's syndrome. However, I think I have a shit ton of other mental problems that I can't get diagnosed because I'm broke and can't see someone about my mental issues. And how can I trust them? I already doubt my official diagnosis,

Diagnosed aspie, at your service.

Hello there.

I've got a question. I dunno if this has been talked about before.

There's a thing I do, and I have no idea how to explain it so I'll just describe it.

I hate trying to imagine other people having minds and thoughts of their own, that are different to mine. I know this is a thing, of course. But if I try to actually think about it, I start to wonder what thoughts people are having right now, and how they differ from the thoughts somebody else near me is having right now and soon my head is crowded with so many potential thoughts that I get a headache and have to stop.

Similarly, I went to Pompeii once, and somebody said "Imagine. All that time ago, people used this bathhouse.". So I started to wonder what they did there, and soon my head was full of people washing and chatting and fighting and eating and napping, and I got a headache and had to stop thinking about it.

Does that make sense? And is this a thing, or is it just a weird habit of mine?

Supposedly autistics tend to dwell on things. Things that remind you of other things, or make you think of other things, endlessly, is common enough. In your case, the thing that makes you endlessly think of other things and keep making those connections in your head just happens to be thinking about how other people's minds work.

I think about that every once in a while. It's a really cool thought to have!

I do stuff like that a lot, makes me wonder....

Me too. I get those kinda thoughts all the time.

Ah so it's not just me. That's a relief.

Man, this thread moves even slower than my ability to forgive people!

At this point I'm convinced something like this has been part of the cause for my dour, stressed mood lately.

To elaborate, my issue seems to be that I'm always thinking about the character of other people and such, and moreover thinking about how valid their own thoughts and opinions are to me in the scheme of things and all that. Generally I like to just think I'm a very open guy who doesn't just ignore or shun lines of thought on the spot. I try to think more on a grey spectrum than black and white and try to consider all the options I have available.

But then of course I start to worry about those things, like about whether or not the validity of their opinions or such is moreso justified than that of my own or such, and whether or not shutting out some of these things makes lesser of myself for not being thoughtful or such. Sure there are other factors such as awareness of factions whom could be antagonistic from my suggestions, self-esteem issues and so forth, but with how often this occurs with me and how often I seem to dwell on the thoughts and opinions of certain characters for unhealthy and seemingly endless amounts of time as opposed to my own character and such I wondered how much this went into my Asperger's and such. Sometimes such thinking has made me rather stress-tensed, stomach sickness, or rather depressed about what some of these thoughts mean for me and about things I tend to pursue.

It's annoying since I alway feel like I tear myself away from these things only to find something else to stress me out in thought a little while later. I suppose when you're looking for answers and trying to make the right choices...

edited 28th Oct '15 9:40:57 PM by StarvingGecko

I think the impossible might be happening and I'm actually developing a social life out in the real world. I'm still quite nervous about how awkward I look or act around others.